Delivering Healthy Options to Food Deserts

(Editor’s Note: This month, Next Avenue will be focusing on healthy food options, community gardening and other topics in a series of four stories, “A Healthy Harvest.” This is the first in the series.) In many large cities across the country, it seems… Continue reading

Why Many Older Americans Are Food Insecure

Who do you picture when you think about food insecurity? A child relying on the free breakfast and lunch her school provides? A family using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits (aka, food stamps) at the grocery store? A homeless m… Continue reading